Joy for Vern

   Singapore
12:00 23 Feb 2006 
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Aviation pioneer Vern Raburn has reason to celebrate. The head of Eclipse was last night presented with the Publisher’s Award in the inaugural Flight International Aviation Excellence Awards in recognition of his contribution to aviation.

Almost 300 guests packed into Singapore’s landmark Raffles Hotel to see Raburn and the other category winners collect their awards.

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Lufthansa and Eclipse Aviation are among the other winners in the awards, which build on the prestige of the Aerospace Industry Awards, but recognise operational excellence.  Some 230 guests watched front line staff from all over the world collect their trophies. The winners were drawn from cockpit-crew and cabin-crew serving with airlines, air forces, and corporate aviation. And Flight played host to a new award launched by Boeing – the Student Engineer of the Year Award.

The winners were selected by senior Flight International staff from nominations submitted by industry and individuals.
The winners were as follows:

AVIATION EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Category Winner
Major Airline Flight Operations Lufthansa
Airline Flight Operations Chautauqua Airlines
Boeing Young Engineer of the Year James Gregory
Armed Forces Flight Operations 28 Sqn, UK Royal Air Force
Business Aviation Flight Operations GV Executive
Cabin Crew Air France 358
Armed Forces Flight Operations

169th Fighter Wing
US Air National Guard

Publisher’s Award Vern Raburn

For more details, and to read the presentation speches, visit the Aviation Excellence Awards page

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